An extensive international crackdown led by the UK’s National Crime Agency has dismantled a Russian money laundering network linked to drug trafficking organizations such as the Kinahan Organised Crime Group. Operation Destabilise resulted in over 80 arrests and the seizure of more than £20 million in cash and cryptocurrency. Investigators identified two key networks, Smart and TGR, operating from Moscow, Dubai, and London, which facilitated unlawful financial activities, including assisting Russian oligarchs in bypassing sanctions and laundering crime proceeds. High-profile figures, including Ekaterina Zhdanova and George Rossi, were among those sanctioned.